Creative Writing Story Prompts
<p>KS2 (Key Stage 2) or early KS3 imaginative / descriptive writing story starters cards, featuring high quality photo prompts, vocabulary banks, prompt questions and more. These 20 full-page story generators can be used across a range of abilities and ages, especially in Year 4, 5, 6 and 7 (Y4 / Y5 / Y6 / Y7), to spark ideas for stories. Great for reluctant writers and they have a dyslexia friendly format too. PDF format. <em>In Scotland use for Primary 4, 5, and 6 and S1.</em></p>
<p>You can purchase this as part of this <strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-story-prompts-photo-starters-bundle-12530022">Creative Writing Story Prompts BIG BUNDLE 100 Prompts!</a></strong></p>
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<li>Use as <strong>warm ups</strong>, <strong>early finishers</strong> activities and as a <strong>framework for free writing sessions</strong></li>
<li>Each of the <strong>20</strong> A4 cards features a visual element (<strong>photo / picture stimulus</strong>), a <strong>starter sentence</strong> or part-sentence to help launch children into their fiction / narrative writing</li>
<li><strong>Prompt questions</strong> to get ideas going</li>
<li>A <strong>word bank</strong> and <strong>suggested openers</strong> to add variety to their writing</li>
<li>A box at the bottom <strong>reminds students to read their work aloud, check for full stops and capital letters and common spellings</strong></li>
<li><strong>Range of subjects and genres</strong> including sport, mystery, humour, fantasy and historical. Plenty of variety so children can choose ones that appeal to them.</li>
<li><strong>UK and US English versions</strong> included, with spellings and references to ‘full stops’ and ‘periods’ etc amended as appropriate</li>
<li><strong>Designed to offer maximum support for dyslexic learners</strong> and those with similar barriers to learning. Verdana font and spacing used are both dyslexia-friendly and the background colours are designed to reduce glare. Both the UK and US cards are <strong>also included with the background colours removed</strong> and could be used if printing on dyslexia friendly paper or card.</li>
<li>Could be used to support the writing of a full story</li>
<li>Could also work well as a regular tool to support struggling writers in one-to-one or small group sessions, where students write a few sentences inspired by the prompts, without worrying about completing a story.</li>
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<em><strong>SAVE AS PART OF OTHER BUNDLES, SUCH AS…</strong></em><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-story-prompts-photo-starters-bundle-12530022">Creative Writing Story Prompts</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-writing-11739814">KS2 Writing</a></strong><br />
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